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Moderate deviations for Ewens-Pitman exchangeable random partitions
Stefano Favaro, Shui Feng, Fuqing Gao
Consider a population of individuals belonging to an infinity number of types, and assume that type proportions follow the two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet distribution. A sample of…
Frequency of Frequencies Distributions and Size Dependent Exchangeable Random Partitions
Mingyuan Zhou, Stefano Favaro, Stephen G Walker
Motivated by the fundamental problem of modeling the frequency of frequencies (FoF) distribution, this paper introduces the concept of a cluster structure to define a probability f…
Bayesian Nonparametric Ordination for the Analysis of Microbial Communities
Boyu Ren, Sergio Bacallado, Stefano Favaro +2
Human microbiome studies use sequencing technologies to measure the abundance of bacterial species or Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) in samples of biological material. Typicall…